Have You Completed a WORKOUT WEDNESDAY for Tableau or Power BI?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Workout Wednesday is a weekly challenge that has been running for a few years for Tableau users at http://www.workout-wednesday.com/. Community contributors build a sample, provide requirements for you to follow to recreate it, and often post…
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New Financial Sample Dataset Included with Power BI Desktop
Reading Time: 3 minutes With the October 2020 release of Power BI Desktop, Microsoft has incorporated a sample dataset directly into the product. While there are a few commonly used training and demo datasets already, there are benefits to having…
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What Power BI Fonts May Help Report Viewers with Dyslexia?
Reading Time: 3 minutes According to the International Dyslexia Association, “perhaps as many as 15-20% of the population as a whole have some of the symptoms of dyslexia”. In addition, for many reasons, dyslexia and other written language difficulties are…
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Power BI: What Happens if I Create a Report with a Vertical Layout (Portrait Mode)?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The default Power BI report layout uses a landscape orientation. While it’s not common to see report pages that use portrait mode, Prathy Kamasani (blog/twitter) has a notable example in Power BI here. Others have tried…
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Jupyter as an External Tool for Power BI Desktop (Python Part 4)
Reading Time: 4 minutes Many people use Python with notebooks, so let’s take a look at one possible way to enable a Jupyter external tool for Power BI Desktop. The following stepwise approach begins with simply opening Jupyter. It then…
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